IN PURGATORY, IN COMA, AMONG

"In purgatory - in coma - in suspension - on the border of existence and non-existence
- among - nowhere. In equally distant space between the day and the night, life and death, heaven and hell. Without good and evil, beauty and ugliness, love and hatred.
In blind and mute impotence, where moment means eons. There, where so, not
and I do not know the same means. On border which has not. In loneliness which equally hurts and does not hurt. It is space of this performance. She is living there
- the heroine of tale. And in this space the ordinary and basic human needs becomes open again."

The performance entitled Basic Needs is the indoor spectacle of
Teatr A PART, directed by Marcin Herich. It is a non-verbal strong theatre seance, joining the poetic of black theatre of dreams, style of radical theatre of body and emotion as well as elements of dance theatre.


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script and direction: Marcin Herich

acting: Aleksandra Janus (Marta Kadłub), Joanna Pyrcz, Monika Wachowicz,
Maciej Dziaczko

light design: Maciej Dziaczko, Marcin Herich

stage moving: Marcin Herich in co-operation with Monika Wachowicz

music: fragments of works of Merzbow, Toska, The Future Sound of London,
c.h. district, A.Iglesias, H. Purcell, A.Rishaug and P.Szczepanik

music design: Mirosław Matyasik

text: travesty of fragments of text from "American Beauty" by Sam Mendes
(interpretation by Marcin Herich)

duration of the performance: 65 minutes
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PRESENTATIONS

*Teatr Rozrywki (Chorzów, Poland, first night performance, 2006)
*Teatr Rozrywki (Chorzów, Poland, International Theatre Festival A PART, 2006)
*Centre of Culture and Art of Mazovia (Warsaw, Poland, 2006)
*Teatr Ósmego Dnia (Poznań, Poland, 2007)
*The Library of Alexandria (Alexandria, Egypt, Creative Forum, 2007)
*Community Centre (Kolarovo, Slovakia, Art Festival Meteorit, 2007)
*Kulturzentrum E-werk (Erlangen, Germany, Theatre Festival Arena, 2007)
*Teatr Korez (Katowice, Poland, 2008)
*Teatr Mały (Tychy, Poland, 2008)
*KIC Budo Tomovic (Podgorica, Montenegro. Festival Alternativnog Teatra FIAT, 2008)
*Teatr Korez (Katowice, Poland, International Theatre Festival A PART, 2008)
*Teatr Korez (Katowice, Poland, 2008)
*Teatr Korez (Katowice, Poland, 2009)
*Societatheater (Dresden, Germany, szene: Polen, 2010)
*Teatr Korez (Katowice, Poland, 2010)


CRITICS

It's a long time since I get nervous in a theatre so much.
Ewa Obrębowska-Piasecka, Głos Wielkopolski

Venture where "angels" fear to tread. Semi-nude show which delved deep into the lives of women, projecting their inner, subconscious fears, biological traumas, and sexual fantasies in a lurid, quasi sadistic vein, together with the tension of living up to media-popularized male expectations.
Nehad Seleiha, Al-Ahram Weekly